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FiveRuns is a provider of Rails application (and server) monitoring services. I am including any news or developments the sponsor has had during July 2008. Two things worth mentioning here are:

They recently introduced DataFabric – a gem they wrote to help with ActiveRecord. One of the lingering issues they have had to deal with over the last year in the Manage service was ActiveRecordâ€™s reluctance to talk to more than one database. DataFabric extends ActiveRecordâ€™s standard connection handling to provide two features – application-level sharding and master/slave replication. For all the details read the article – Introducing DataFabric.

Want to travel to Berlin for free? Then you have one week left to take part on their “Run Your Way to RailsConf Europe” Contest. They are giving away two tickets to RailsConf Europe (September 2 -4, 2008) – airfare, hotel, and conference passes. You only need to try out their TuneUp product which they launched at RailsConf in Portland. So what are you waiting for?